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H. J. SKINNER. Ironing Machine.

No; 233,706. Patented 0C1. 26.1880.

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N.PETERS, PHOTO-LITNOGHAPNER, WASHINGTON D C UNITED TATES ATENT rain.

HENRY J. SKINNER, OF BRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO LUOIOUS W. GODFREY, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,706, dated October 26, 1880.

Application filed October 22, 1879.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. SKINNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bradford, in the county of McKean and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for ironing clothes, cuffs, collars, or other similar articles, either coarse or fine; and it consists, first, in the table or ironing-board, which is made adjustable vertically by means of eccentrics or cams arranged below it and provided with two connecting-levers, in combination with a footlever having an adjustable fastening device, as will be more clearly hereinafter shown, whereby the ironing-board may be readily adjusted and held to any pressure required, and in a level or horizontal position at all points of its vertical adjustment, whether the machine is in motion or not.

Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a front view; Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinal section through line X X, Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a plan or top view.

Arepresents the frame of the machine, which is held together by the cross-braces B B, and, if desired, a cross-head may be placed nearer the front of the machine to give it additional strength;

G represents the ironing-table, upon which is placed a removable board, 0, covered with cloth, or its equivalent, for giving it a yielding surface, upon which the material to be ironed is placed. This board can be easily removed and returned to its place while the machine is eithervin motion or at rest.

The table 0, which is adjustable vertically, so as -to regulate the pressure of the same against the ironing-roller, but is otherwise stationary, as plainly shown in Fig.3, is supported .upon cams or eccentrics E, arranged two or more upon each shaft E E to which are rigidly fastened slotted levers FF, which are connected together by afoot (or hand) lever, G, provided with a friction-roller on each side, which passes into a slot or opening in lever or arm F (see G) on one side, and a slot, G in lever F on the other side, the construction being such that when the lever G is moved downward the arms F F both move together and turn the eccentrics or cams E and the shafts E E so as to raise the ironing-table, as in Fig. 3, and when it is moved up the ironingboard is lowered down, as in Fig. 1.

H represents a curved rack fastened to one 'side of the machine, into the notches of which A so as to be open and accessible at the front and both sides. It is made hollow, and adapted to be heated on the inside by gas, oil, or other means, and is supported in the sliding pieces I, one on each side, so as to hang in the upper part of the frame and be easily moved back and forth. There are two pinions, I 1 one on each side of the frame, rigidly fastened to the shaft J, which engage with the teeth in the rack J on one side and the rack J 2 on the other side. The rack-bars are each provided with a slot, K, through which a bolt, K,passes for holding them to the frame, and at the same time permit a free longitudinal movement forward and back. The front ends of the rackbars are rigidly fastened to the sliding pieces I, which support the ironing-roller H and slide on the guideways L.

L represents a driving-pulley rigidly fastened to the shaft J, and M M are two loose pulleys, held by suitable collars, in the usual way, close to each side of L.

N is a shifting-bar provided with the usual guide-bars O 0, having the slots or openings P 1? for the driving-belts.

Q, represents the starting-bar. It is supported at the forward endby the projecting arm It, through which it passes. At the op posite end it is connected at R in a similar way, (see Fig. 1,) and by an arm, R and an gular arm S it is jointed at S to the frame, and at T to the shitting-bar N, so that a movement of the starting-bar either way will cause the shifting-bar N to move at right angles to it. (See Figs. 1 and 4.) In this way it will be readily seen that by operating the starting bar by hand the two driving-belts (which run in a projection, V, on the rack-bars, the collarsv U U being adjusted at any point along the starting-bar and fastened by the set-screws, according to the length of the stroke required, the motion being reversed every time the piece V reaches a collar and moves the starting-bar so as to shift the belts, as before mentioned.

I claim as my invention In an ironing-machine, a vertically-adjustable but otherwise stationary ironing-board, O, and the shafts E E provided with the eccentrics or cams E, for keeping the table horizontal and level at any point of its vertical adjustment, in combination with the levers F F, provided with slots G G, the foot-lever Gr, connected thereto substantially as described, and the curved rack H, for the purpose of adjusting the table vertically and holding it at any point desired, as set forth.

HENRY J. SKINNER.

Witnesses ASHBEL R. SELLEW, EDWIN PATTERSON SELLEW. 

